10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MISTRESSLY»
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1
A Devotion to Their Science: Pioneer Women of Radioactivity
39 "She had her way," Robert Reid has noted, "her bald dictatorial statement was
accepted. But she created her critics, some of whom were becoming less tolerant
of her mistressly attitudes."40 The claim of Curie's "mistressly" behavior seems ...
2
A Supplementary English Glossary
fteade, A'ever too late to Mend, ch. xlii. MISTRESSLY, pertnining to the mistress
of a household. Will he take from me the mistressly management, which I had not
faultily discharged ?— Richardson, Cl. Harlem, i. 298. MISUSANCE, misusage.
Thomas Lewis Owen Davies, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, 1881
3
The Works of Professor Wilson of the University of ...
... unabated splendour, and plenteous accommodation, beneath the banner of Mr
Ladyman;—and that Newby-Bridge inn maintains its ancient reputation for civility
and good fare, under the masterly and mistressly management of the Bells. VII.
John Wilson, James Frederick Ferrier, 1856
4
The Letters of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford
I did see the new bust of Mrs. Siddons, and a very mistressly performance it is
indeed. Mrs. Damer was surprised at my saving I should expect you after another
week ; she said, you had not talked of returning near so soon. I do not mention
this, ...
Horace Walpole, Peter Cunningham, 1906
5
The letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: including ...
I did see the new bust of Mrs. Siddons, and a very mistressly performance it is
indeed. Mrs. Damer was surprised at my saying I should expect you after another
week ; she said, you had not talked of returning near so soon. I do not mention
this, ...
Horace Walpole, John Wright, George Agar-Ellis Dover (1st baron), 1840
6
The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, ...
Will he take from me the mistressly management, which I had not faultily
discharged? Will he set a. servant over me, with licence to 'insult rue-P Will he, as
he has not a sister, permit his cousins» ' Montague, or would either of those
ladies ...
Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia), 1810
7
The Rural Economy of Glocestershire; Including Its Dairy: ...
The method varies: some U dab" on the colouring, wet, with a cloth ; others, while
the surface is moist, throw it on, dry, in " pinches", irregularly ; rubbing it in with
the hand. The latter is allowed to be the more mistressly manner. ' VOL. II. K ** To
...
8
A Book for the Times: Lucy Boston; Or, Woman's Rights and ...
This was the signal for the final maneuver in this mistressly " coup aVtat," this
grand stroke of revolutionary policy. The startling motion was at once made (
evidently according to a previously concocted plan) and unanimously passed, ...
9
The novels of Samuel Richardson...
Will he take from me the mistressly management, which I had not faultily
discharged ? Will he set a servant over me, with license to insult me ? Will he, as
he has not a sister, permit his cousins Montague, or would either of those ladies
accept ...
Samuel Richardson, Ethel M. M. McKenna, 1902
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The works of professor Wilson, ed. by prof. Ferrier
... in unabated splendour, and plenteous accommodation, beneath the banner of
Mr Ladyman; — and that Newby-Bridge inn maintains its ancient reputation for
civility and good fare, under the masterly and mistressly management of the Bells
.
John Wilson, James Frederick Ferrier, 1856
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